# The How to Live Newsletter

> Every Wednesday, author Amanda Stern unearths the invisible forces that guide our thoughts, shape our choices, and define how we live.

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## Posts
- [Let's Take David Foster Wallace's Class](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/dfw): The complete materials from his legendary 2003 fiction seminar
- [Freud and Adler's Friendship Ended Over an Idea. A Book Built on It Sold 13 Million Copies.](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/adlervfreud): The psychology Alfred Adler left behind, and the question two therapists built into a bestseller seven decades later.
- [Buckminster Fuller and the Sixty-Six-Year Experiment to Document His Existence](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/buckminster): Plus, a new prompt.
- [June TL;DR ](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/june-tl-dr): Pieces too long? Read this monthly summary!
- [The Invisible Rules About Who Counts](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/whocounts): The secret qualifications that make a family
- [Peter Hujar, Linda Rosenkrantz, and the Art of Noticing What You Actually Do With a Day](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/everyday): A small experiment in noticing
- [Why Everyone Believes They See the World as It Is–And No One Does](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/why-everyone-believes-they-see-the-world-as-it-is-and-no-one-does): The psychology of why we experience our opinions as facts, and how it impacts us.
- [The Era of Miracle Cures](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/snakeoil): Snake oil, miracle cures, and the advertisements that sold them.
- [How to Become Who You Actually Want to Be](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/braining): Our brains have hidden systems. We're not using them.
- [MAY TL;DR ](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/may-tl-dr): Pieces too long? Read this monthly summary!
- [What Happens When 107 People Help You Interpret Your Pain](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/sophiecalle): In Take Care of Yourself, an artist turns a breakup letter into a collective act of interpretation.
- [Finding Depth in a World Bent on Flattening.](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/flattenedworld): Things I'm listening to, reading, watching, seeing...
- [The 82-Year-Old Artist Who Draws What Being Alive Feels Like](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/rosaire): A Friday Drop
- [When You Need Help: A Wildly Comprehensive Mental Health Resource Guide](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/2026resourceguide)
- [The Strange Fate of Alfred Binet’s Intelligence Test](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/binetforgood): On the Difficulty of Controlling What We Create
- [2.5% of the Population Suffers From This Under-Recognized Disorder. Do You?](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/dysthymic26): Dysthymia is Depression by Another Name
- [April TL;DR ](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/april-tl-dr): Pieces too long? Read this monthly summary!
- [Amelia Earhart Fashions](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/amelia-earhart-fashions)
- [On Mistaking Anxiety for Perfectionism](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/perfectionism26): The subtle ways anxiety reorganizes itself as virtue
- [The Museum of Everything](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/fridaydrop1): A Friday drop!
- [Things Worth Sharing: Reading | Watching | Thinking](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/worthsharing26): From my world to yours
- [On Knowing Yourself: Four Questions No Honest Life Can Avoid](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/4questions): Why the distance between who you are and who you could be has always come down to four things you already know
- [Rachel Carson on the Intelligence of Wonder](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/intelligentwonder): From the 1965 Reader's Digest book: How to Live with Life. 
- [March TL;DR](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/march-tl-dr26): Pieces too long? Read this monthly summary!
- [What Closeness Is Made Of: The 36 Questions That Lead to Love](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/thequestions): Arthur & Elaine Aron set out to manufacture intimacy in a laboratory. Then their method went viral.
- [On What We Get Wrong About Madness, and What That Wrongness Costs](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/laudorcostello): Michael Laudor, Carrie Costello, and the Promise America Keeps Breaking
- [The Ceremony Is the Cure: What the Rest of the World Knows That We Don't](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/rituals): On the cultural wisdom of honoring what we have no words for
- [There’s a Name for the Texture of Being You](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/qualia): There is a layer of your experience so personal it defeats language entirely. Analytic Philosophy knows its name. 
- [Peter Levine and the Question of Where Fear Goes.](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/tremblingcure): On our body's buried intelligence
- [February TL;DR](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/february-tl-dr): Pieces too long? Read this monthly summary!
- [Ntozake Shange Refused to Pathologize Herself. Here's What She Did Instead.](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/ntozke): On mental illness, artistic form, and who gets to decide what's real
- [One of America’s Most Important Thinkers Is Someone You've Never Heard Of. ](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/onerasure): Anna Julia Cooper and the erasure of women’s thought
- [The True Story of My Fake Ex-Husband](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/valentines2026): In the late 1990s, I met a stranger on the subway, and (illegally) married him a few hours later.
- [Do You Matter?](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/doyoumatter): Five questions that highlight the quality of your connections
- [How to Live's Two for One Model](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/twoforone): How to Live's two-for-one model